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What is fundamentally required required from government is a stable legal and business environment and a court system that is efficient and free of corruption, and a provision for the common defense.

The legal system should recognize and protect the concept that different people will contribute to the society in proportion to their differing cultural and educational backgrounds, and that the society is dynamic and ever changing through time. No such thing as "affirmative action", but ALWAYS 'equal opportunity'.

Government should not try to categorize individuals by race or socioeconimic status.

"Safety nets" which invariably require theft to function will ALWAYS corrupt the legitimacy of the government. Socialism is based on the fiction that democracy justifies theft. Nothing justifies theft, and certainly the fact that you have the largest gang does not justify theft.

If you justify theft on the basis of numbers, others will justify it on the basis of need, or on the basis of cleverness.

Here's the odd thing: meddling in the name of creating or encouraging a "stable society" or a "safety net" or "social justice" will never provide any of these things. It will only result in the creation of a clsss of rulers and a class of the ruled- and that will lead to resentment and instability that can only be controlled by guns.

If people acting as individuals, not through government, treat each other with dignity and respect, and allow each other to go about their business without envy and resentment, and if they LEARN from each other, then the result will be peace and prosperity.

In other words, peace and prosperity are the natural results of the kind of life conservatives think we should live.

Peace and prosperity, stable society, social justice, these just CAN'T be delivered by governments.. They are the results of the way people live their lives.